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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005
Grawe, Roger - 2013
The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World Bank focusing on dominant development...
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Institutions and Asia's development: The role of norms and organizational power
Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2018
successful countries; they evolved over time. The distribution of holding power across different types of organizations, the …The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later … agree about the institutions that matter nor do they explain why similar institutions delivered such different results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943937
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The joint labour decisions of farm couples: A censored response analysis of on-farm and off-farm work
Bjørnsen, Hild-Marte; Biørn, Erik - 2006
Farm couples' labour market responses are partly the qualitative choice of entering the ff-farm labour market and partly the continuous choice of the number of on-farm and off-farm working hours, given entry. Such a setting is interesting when examining the increasing occurrence of multiple...
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Raising utility and lowering risk through adaptive sustainability: Society and the risk of wealth inequity in Western Australia
Andrich, Mark A.; Oxburgh, E. Ronald; Imberger, Jorg - 2009
a fund modelled on Norway's sovereign wealth fund. …
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Towards an actuarially fair pension system in Norway
Colombino, Ugo; Hernæs, Erik; Locatelli, Marilena; … - 2009
In order to estimate labour supply responses among older people we have employed a very simple model of retirement decisions that can be estimated on a single cross-section sample, and still be given a structural interpretation in terms of inter-temporal decisions. The model is estimated on...
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Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth
Fella, Giulio; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Pugh, Thomas - 2024
We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581860
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Feminism and labour supply in the Nordic countries/ Axel Hall; Gylfi Zoega
Hall, Axel - 2008
People in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden work more than the countries’ high tax rates would lead us to predict. This observation is explained by a shared belief system that emphasises women’s rights to labour market participation.
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Norwegian Income Tax Reforms
Christiansen, Vidar - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 3, pp. 9-14
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Effects of the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 - 19 on later life mortality of Norwegian cohorts born about 1900
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik - 2003
neutral Norway must clearly go beyond the direct (soldiers wounded physically and mentally) and indirect effects (rationing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284370
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Retirement in Italy and Norway
Colombino, Ugo; Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhyiang; Strøm, Steinar - 2003
model requires only cross section data and is estimated on survey data for Italy and register data for Norway. The estimates … cuts in pension benefits in Norway than in Italy. …
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